On Saturday 15 Aug 2009, mihir tailor wrote: > One of my friends has recently started classes for teaching C. > He has a pretty decent rig and now he wants to use that pc > for setting up a lab for his students to practice C programs on. > he is on a very tight budget and cannot afford to setup multiple pcs, > so he know wants to know whether he can use Virtualization on fedora > 11 and setup multiple systems using KVM.
To implement hardware based virtualization your friend needs the correct combo of motherboard and CPU (Intel-VT or AMD-V). This due diligence is necessary on your friend's part. KVM and openvz (wiki.openvz.org) both require it. KVM is a good choice if your friend plans to have different kinds of guest OS like other Linux distros, Windows, and even Mac OS X (with some hacks in qemu). openvz will replicate the host OS in a VM. KVM or openVZ, I would recommend going with a server centric platform like CentOS. > > His Configuration is as follows : > AMD Athlon 64 x2 64 bit Dual Core Processor @ 2.6 GHz > 2.00 Gb RAM (1.87 Gb usable due to onboard graphics card.) > 160Gb Sata Hdd + 80 Gb Pata Hdd. What is the total no. of students he want to support with this hardware? >From what I understand the above hardware will not support KVM or openVZ. He may have to opt for VMWare and also up the RAM to 4GB; to get decent performance. The best option may be to use this PC as a terminal server with thin clients (figure 6K for the client and 5K for LCD panel plus 250 for low end kbd/mouse). > The System is currently running Windows 7 and Fedora 11. > My question is is it possible to setup such a system ? Please help. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
